How else do I discipline my kid aside from whacking him on the ass!

In My Humble Opinion
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[QUOTE=overlyverbose]
Wow, counting like that seems like a huge opportunity to cop out of discipline to me. Did they ever reach three?

I think kids should be given a chance to correct their behavior when it’s practicable (i.e., not something they do constantly to push your buttons and/or not a safety issue); however, that’s ridiculous.
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The kid stopped at “two and three quarters”. It bespeaks a certain unwillingness to be serious about consequences - we were wondering if she even knew what she was going to do if she ever Zeon’s Paradoxed her way to 3.

Nothing wrong with counting, but there has to be something that happens at 3 consistently.

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[QUOTE=dangermom]
I do the counting, and usually when I get to three I just haul the kid up and make her do whatever it is she’s refusing to do. She can choose to do it or Mom can do it for her, and she won’t enjoy the second option. I rarely get to three, and now all I have to do is poke up a finger, and then another finger…

My mom used to send my sister to her room, but that was no punishment, so she started sending her to the bathroom, which is boring.
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Right. Three is when we do it My Way, which is rarely as fun as the kid’s way.